total reconquest the french say they won't leave mali until islamic extremism is wiped out but already there are voices suggesting ulterior motives behind what threatens to become a long war in the african ex colony. going you clear over sanctions north korea announces a slew of ballistic and atomic weapons tests all targeted against the u.s. over fresh u.n. impose penalties. catalonia trumpets its right to split from spain despite madrid's protestations with the crisis and stagnation driving the two strains sides further apart we get live expert analysis on this very shortly here and.

around the world online on screen life from on you said to him in moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day a splinter movement has broken away from the al qaeda linked islamists of money saying it wants to fight terrorism and extremism a newly formed group has stated it is ready for peace talks with the government and the french whose forces are currently fighting that france's defense minister meanwhile has said his country prepared for a long conflict and he's written ocean a look at the reasons behind the french intervention. thank you french had died headlong into the military operation in mali but the discussion is still ongoing as to exactly why the western nation has people who are as rich and soil again cost in money and people's lives official rhetoric remains in line with the mantra of the

war on terrorism but some statements suggest another may or france's defense minister has declared total become question mali is the main goal with the president echoing french troops twenty five hundred so far who remain in the region the rest on as necessary they're attempting to militarize the few ships of africa so that they will to monopolize access to the city to the resources this is the day we think this is the complete specifically i mean relations do it to states that no we seeing problems in other parts of the european union through european union troops actually being used i mean some of the money conflict as well which has been relatively rare in the past gold and especially iranian deposits make the country very attractive nearly eighty percent of all france's energy generated by almost sixty nuclear mines is dependent on african remaining. french companies must go on the offensive and fight the growing influence of rival china for stake in africa's increasingly competitive markets although this is neocolonialism but with similar

france is far from the only nation to have been defending its interests in africa the french have intervened around fifty times in the last fifteen years since official declination contempt in regimes from rebels looking to contain the central african republic or fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by sown economic or geopolitical interests this time is no different i like to call the cold eyes asian wasn't actually over apart from economic there is also strategic importance this part of africa opens routes to the red sea and the middle east of britain from. have for centuries fought over it before it's like a remake but with many others involved but that doesn't mean the round mutual interests here. if you ask people in mali you'd be surprised they were waiting for somebody to save them because their army is not equipped to train to oppose these

militants but it was necessary to intervene in mali people see this operation as a liberation they hardly wanted to live under islamicists mess they had that is the philosopher in the form of tunisia ambassador to damascus his view on the positive impact for the people of mali is that it is actually a colonial throwback. it's ok if you want to come use resources but then it's logical that locals profit as well those riches go to improve their life but that's not the case this way is wild a kind of slavery mali him on the richest national resources in africa yet remains one of the poorest nations in the world for many years there's been going in paris was the headquarters of the country's ministry of colonies their body able to minister to french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and former french colonies are independent but someone that i want to ideas are just part of history and that history may be repeating. now our team from paris.

for more on the nato intervention in mali let's talk to north an expert writing on the middle east tariq ali. we are getting those reports of the first evidence split in the ranks of the islam is some of them saying they are ready to fight against extremism so is that a sign that the nato intervention is succeeding look affectively was taking place in mali for many years was in the north of mali so where a minority of the country. the trireme people who have been demanding their own state. for a long long time and the people leading the tourists were secular they were nationalists and they were assisted by the corrupt governments in mali backed by france all felt that the unity of the concrete was absolutely vital whereas if they had suggested of confederation of two states it would have worked better this is

mean carrying on for some time then it's given an extra boost when nato goes in occupies libya after a six month bombing campaign and the people they've bought in part. from the libyan army kicked out of iraq for consul to our eggs find their way back home with libyan weaponry and they have been trained to fight some of them are fundamentalists some of them are not in good alfie's army they were fundamentalism was not tolerated in their form and at the same time we would then have small jihadi currents locally who are well trained taking over cities like kimberly two and the mali an army which has been created by the united states for some years can incapable of doing anything apart from i think called to task in screw up civilian government so it's a missy's gratian considered so you you would agree with then with the russian

president vladimir putin he said today that the un rest in mali as a result of the living up he will say in saying that what happened libya has been a catalyst for all those underlying tensions in mali for quite a long time yeah absolutely i don't think there's any doubt about it tonight i think the fact that just today the united states secretary of state clinton and the british government are getting their citizens to leave benghazi is an indication of the chaos that exists in libya i mean this was a concrete supposedly liberated by me to be waiting to see benghazi in particular from a massacre that is where the american ambassador has. killed that is where the attempt was made being made on the life of the british and italian ambassadors so effectively they're now we're drawing from benghazi so what do they do now they're tearing i mean you're saying that obviously a lot of people in libya and now we're seeing from the french point of view that money could become

a terrorist state threat in the region and indeed europe so some think no matter what the cause is a bane something now has got to come up as a solution and it is a military one that the french are pursuing is not right no it isn't right because i don't think europe is under threat from any terrorist group obama is already said that the phrase war against terrorism is a day to the united states will abandon it and sort of ironic that the french are now taking it up the french intervention which has many people in the south a lot because they're completely desperate but if this intervention goes on it'll get worse and worse because these guys are going to fight back and then you will have probably small groups of people taking revenge as we saw in algeria and incidentally the role of the french played in algeria bice helping in encouraging the government to stop an election midway has also left an impact on that concrete so there's no doubt it will do stabilize and goes well teller county thank you very

much indeed for your thoughts great to hear from an expert author right here on the middle east joining me live in london thank you. a u.s. senate committee is set to decide on whether democrat john kerry should replace hillary clinton as america's next secretary of state later this hour with the challenges he may be facing if he's given the green. and white of which we speak to an embattled online business and freedom of information activist who claims human rights record and be politically motivated persecution of his colleagues around the globe. the first north korea is what it is prepared to carry out a plethora of rocket launches a nuclear test to allow to compete militarily should words turn to war for the message comes a day after the u.n. approved more sanctions against pyongyang over a satellite launch in december and brian becker i spoke about earlier he's from the anti war coalition says the situation is so volatile conflict could break out at

any moment. korea is the most heavily militarized part of the planet the u.s. won't sign the landmine treaty one of the few countries not to be a signatory to it because they say they may need it in korea there's constant incidence in north korea one of those could blow up and become a major conflagration it's a serious problem every time any country says that they are going to defend themselves from the united states the united states c. or you're an aggressor and thus we have the new excuse the new pretext to up the ante but i think when you look at the whole picture you can see that north korea is sort of tenacious militancy even if it appears to be bombastic in the west in the way it's presented in the western media it's had the effect of preventing what would have been otherwise i think a war between the united states and its allies in north korea that was a danger that existed in one thousand nine hundred four a very real danger it started again when bush came into office scratching scotching the normalization process that was under way during clinton so i don't think north

korea is sort of. impression that it's prepared to fight is actually accelerating the conflict if anything i think it could lead to new negotiations now if you haven't needed a reminder of why you should strap yourself in while traveling on treacherous roads when this video is surely it in a shocking accident that could have been so much worse. regulus as a not once a but twice i'll give you the story of a one year old girl who survived this. first cut alone years adopted the declaration of sovereignty a proclamation that gives it the right to hold a referendum on breaking away from spain to madrid is unswayed maintaining it's not up to kind of lands alone to decide if they want to leave but a matter for all spaniards let's get more on where this leaves the two opposing sides with an altercation is a spokesperson from the european partnership for in the. well you're an ardent supporter of an independent catalonia is your goal any closer now with this

declaration. well let every this be simpler than that and process something that the months of catalonia is sure of claims from the popular basis so these declarations what he has done is just a fall money is something that democrats are running now and that is that catalonia is a suffering nation we just declared ourselves formally this popularly we all know that's the case but formally don't we are a political and the legal super inception now i out where these detroit honest could get in practice and corner and celebrate a referendum about the finance of the testimony but you're not going to be able to put it into practice are you because madrid says that it would be illegal to ask for a referendum so really this declaration is just an empty gesture. well actually that's a very concept to we cannot understand what it means illegal and

a democracy that is something that in any case they would have to explain and justify to the international community about the democratic deficit we are going up to see to you anywhere anyway actually last official poor was saying that sixty three percent of catalans want to continue on to the referendum this fide what country has to say or us so you have to ask you the majority of catalans want to go ahead with this but what about this being a matter for the entire spanish population do you think you'll get support from the rest of spain. what does of course but we need to understand that you would from freedom so the best way to work and progress we just an estate east of the union from freedom from to freedom to be united to suit to dawson to to work together it's no way to soup to progress when you have blacks to be

something that you are not and it was kind of three young kids from the nations by doing that we are not the spanish so spain would be in progress and it would be united when we are a separate tent in good terms. actually they would be big they would benefit from from disunity from freedom as europe and that and what what why would they benefit when in effect catalonia is actually in a very bad way financially isn't it unemployment record levels and we understand that clearly. the future and the investment prospects of catalonia were to break free could be fairly bleak sixty percent among young spaniards we learn today out of work so what actually makes you think that you'd be better off alone and that you could offer something more to not just spain but the rest of the european community. well because actually all you're saying is it's true i mean obviously we are going through of

a nice our financial situation which we all know bad the key point is that cats hands i cannot decide they policies to avoid this situation or to change it because it's all decided by my treat so that's how long it is not that i don't have as a deficit we can see a functioning is there is a global man which is a prime job there of the spanish state and they are the ones making more decisions so we obviously believe that if we could decide that for our south we would be much better than of and therefore they will be much paying off because we are not saying that the ones we have we have to restore our own state we're not going to want to get up we wish to work together and good to talk to you thank you very much indeed on the other case spokesperson for the european partnership for independence joining me live from boston thank you thank you thank you. that cameron says he's not turning his back on europe speaking at the embassy can only

for the first minister rush to calm the storm off to keep allegations he promised a referendum on whether the u.k. should be the e.u. the details of this bright. little. election.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images kobold has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. led. if you just joined us for a warm welcome aarti live here most of the news continues now a u.s. senate committee is set to decide whether john kerry should become the head of the u.s. state department the democrat senator was nominated by president obama to replace hillary clinton as the country's top diplomat political and economic adviser daniel wagner i spoke about earlier he says there's

a lot of work for him to do i'm sorry you can't bring that comment from daniel agger bagnet for the moment let's see if we get that a little later in the hour in the meantime in the dead of winter it pays to be careful on russia's icy roads and shocking footage has gone viral of what can happen if you will not what is to by and what set takes us through this extraordinary drama. the road is clear he decides to overtake his celebs on the road the truck coming back she's on to him they go something falls out there you see why don't your left corner is the baby who's just a little out of the car into oncoming traffic now what's more surprising about this is that the father comes out luckily this driver is quietly you know he's pretty much aware of what's going on around him he picks up the kid goes back into the car his wife comes out picks up what is what's left of everything in the now this video

has gone literally viral people are going crazy over it and it's only natural that they would because so many questions are being asked on why was this baby not properly settled in this car there was no baby seat obviously seen that the baby fell out of the car and it's unacceptable that they just nonchalantly just went about their business but now the question that everybody should be asking is rather who was filming this video where all of this was happening so russia motorist you saw that they'll put cameras on the actual car so that if anything happens in terms of insurance they have something to actually show the police and say this is what happened on the road the person who was filming this decided to continue for me even as he saw that there's a child who just fell out of this car he continued filming didn't stop to help didn't say anything and he just went about for me maybe because he thought it was going to be on you tube you know i'm not involved who kids but something that got everybody even talking more is the actual parents they just nonchalantly pick up

whatever's left of their belongings and just move on i think the lesson of the day here is that not only are you not you know supposed to be driving recklessly on roads as we have right now it's winter it's slippery it's no we you need to be a bit more vigilant and babysits for reason to protect us and to protect our kids. fresh deadly violence flares up in jordan as the election results emerge one person is killed in the clashes as government candidates dominate the new parliament and it claims the king hijacked the election that's still ahead for you also. a u.s. senate committee is set to the side on whether john kerry should become the head of the u.s. state department the democrat senator was nominated by president obama to replace hillary clinton as the country's top diplomat political and economic adviser daniel

wagner says there's a lot of work for him to do wherever the u.s. has sort of stuck its finger in the arab awakening it hasn't ended well and yet of course they want to be able to influence the process as much as possible so my sense there is that he's he's going to. change try to influence policy just as the new secretary of state which let's not forget that mr obama in some respects has been his own secretary of state who's a very knowledgeable person in foreign affairs as in his own right and i think ultimately he's going to work very closely with mr kerry to call the shots. to british activists from the hacker group anonymous have been sentenced to eighteen and seven months in jail respectively for attacks on web sites including visa master card and pay pal one of their attacks cost the victim three and a half billion pounds internet activism is what we discussed with kim dotcom he's

a businessman known for his now and sharing service until last year he's mega upload site was one of the most popular sites in the world it offered users to exchange content freely well here's what comes up if you get on to that site now upload. it's banned by u.s. authorities it's become a landmark case in the persecution of internet activists but kim dotcom has already started a new service and is determined to keep free file sharing alive and he spoke exclusively to our place about why he's being hounded across the globe. here's a guy who grew up on the internet was a guy who made millions off the internet and here's a guy who designed mega upload at one site one of the most popular websites in the entire world with over one hundred million users is in the top five most trafficked websites and you know that's kind of why the f.b.i. wanted to shut it down i'm not. this my hero he was this he is completely the opposite of me but i'm

a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that big raid on the mega mansion the dot com mansion happened january twentieth two thousand and twelve it was the middle of the night ken was at his guest house on this how the mansion all of a sudden the authorities the local police showed up on helicopters came into his house with guns drawn arrested him arrested his colleagues hauled him off to prison froze his assets shut down his website essentially they put his entire life on hold him dot com is still waiting a eventual extradition hearing to the u.s. at this point though it seems like every single passing day the justice department's case against him just crumbles more and more and more so sooner or later the u.s. government is going to have to prove that kim dotcom is worthy of the extra us and at that point if he's convicted he could spend decades in prison. and you can see the full interview with kim dotcom friday here on. at least one

person has been killed in jordan as fewer supporters of the isn't just opposition clashed with those loyal to the king of the partial parliamentary election results were made public and showed the pro-government candidates were occupying ninety percent of the seats. has more than the first parliamentary vote in jordan since the arab spring kicked off there two years ago. despite a boycott by the muslim brotherhood and other opposition groups and jordan's first parliamentary election since the start of the arab spring turnout was quite high according to election officials more than fifty six percent of the country's two point three million registered voters came out to cast their ballots this is higher than in the last parliamentary elections in this country the muslim brotherhood and opposition activists meanwhile dismissed the results as illegitimate saying that voter turnout was actually much lower than officials describe now jordanian officials want credit for what they claim are successful if cautious democratic

reforms this is the first time that outside election observers were invited to watch over the polls and the new parliament for the first time will be able to elect the country's new prime minister the parliament will also have more of a say over day to day affairs but the king will continue to retain authority over the security services and foreign policy moreover the new parliament can still be dismissed at any moment by a royal to cream which has caused some jordanians to say that the new reforms are simply too little and too late now the opposition groups also claim that the new parliament is illegitimate because of the country's new election law which they say is tilted towards favoring candidates from rural tribal organizations that are largely seen as being supportive of the monarchy and the muslim brotherhood they will continue to dismiss the results as illegitimate and are likely to try to ferment more street protests to boycott continue their boycott of the new poll jordan's new parliament will have to push through even more abiding austerity

reforms which could severely undermined stability here in jordan the future of the arab spring may in the end depend on the economic situation and not politics you see caffein of r t amman jordan. the health of the global economy and debt in europe both coming to the spotlight of the world's business and political elites who converged on the swiss ski resort of doubles for the annual financial for minorities the second day of the the gathering. this politics that is the focus of policy my kids seven sounds like i'm going to go on the team area is the phrase merry among see i'm the e.c.b. president had a good all day only a discussing a strategy to pull europe out of the long running economic crisis is now the most anticipated speech of the day they have to come from british prime minister david cameron of to hand out a referendum on membership of the e.u. and his desire to win a new settlement for your opening credits among the concessions from brussels as

well but to say when he came face to face with the leaders interestingly he seemed to back track slightly he was soft and his approach nice said he was no whites turning his back on europe although he was right as did you it is away from the topic because his speech was that she focused on tax transparency to calm down and avoided some of what he wanted to talk about but the rest of the financial ministers area in davos that is what it's all about the referendum. would be in the team in health enough no in the meantime coming next on the break it's the kaiser report stay with us so that. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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